To sign up for your trial account

Validate and start your trial account

After signing up for a trial account, you get an email from Engine Yard.

In this procedure, you validate and name the account and start your free trial.

To validate and start your trial account

Find the email "Welcome to Engine Yard. Please verify your email." This email from Engine Yard (sso@engineyard.com via sendgrid.me) should appear in your inbox a few minutes after you create your account.

Click on the verification link. This goes to the new accounts page at cloud.engineyard.com.

Enter a name for your account.

The name must be unique and without spaces and punctuation. Hyphens are allowed.

Click Start Trial.

Your trial begins with your new account and the Create New Application page appears.

Enter your credit card and billing information or a promo code.

Credit card information is required to ensure that as an actual prospect, you get the best possible, high-quality experience. Be assured that we will not charge you anything for your first 500 hours while we show you the power of the Engine Yard platform.

If you have an Engine Yard promo code, enter it and click Apply to bypass the credit card requirement.

To create the ToDo application

On the Create New Application page, click "I would like to deploy a sample app" and select "Ruby"".

This populates the Git Repository URI field with the GitHub address for the ToDo application.

The Application Name field is also auto-populated.

The ToDo application is a Rails 3 application; do not change the Application Type field.

Click Create Application.

The Create New Environment for the todo App page appears.

Next you configure and boot the environment for the ToDo app.

To create the ToDo environment

On the Create New Environment page, enter a name for your Environment.

Note: Because this is the ToDo app, you can accept the rest of the environment defaults in this case. If you were creating your own app, you would need to configure your specific environment at this point.

Click Create Environment.

The Configuration for todo_production page appears.

On the Configuration page, select the Single Instance configuration.

Note: Because this is the ToDo app, you only need a single instance. If you were creating your own app, you would need to choose a configuration that suits the needs of your app. See Upgrade a Free Trial Account to a Full Account for more information.

Click Boot This Configuration.

The todo_production environment for the todo application appears.

It will take a while to configure the environment and spin up the instance for the first time.

Tip: If you want to refresh to double-check on progress, click Engine Yard Cloud in the top left rather than refreshing your browser:

Verify that the deploy was successful. You should see a message similar to this:

If you do not see a successful deploy message, click Deploy.

Run the ToDo application

In this procedure, you run the ToDo application that you deployed.

To run the ToDo application

Verify that the indicator is green.

It might take 5 minutes or more for the new instance to load and the indicator to turn green.

Tip: A green indicator means that the instance is loaded -- it does not necessarily mean that the application has deployed successfully. A red indicator means there was a problem configuring the instance.

Click Visit Your Application.

(You can also click on HTTP for the instance.)

The ToDo application appears.

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